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Editing question on PDF

Kgraham
Registered: Aug 8 2007
Posts: 10

I have received a PDF that I wish to edit. It is not secured completely. I am able to select all, copy and paste to a Word document. As expected, not all of the content came through. Headers/footers, tables and images are not as they are in the original document. That's fine being that all I need is the maritive. I can edit the content, change format and save as a Word document. However, I am not able to add my own headers/footers, which I would like to do. Any suggestions as to what to do, look at, or check/uncheck to be able to get what I need? I am a beginner in Acrobat. The one thing I do know is that it can do WAY too much for my little brain to comprehend!!! Thanks in advance for any advice.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 7.0, Windows
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Quote:
PDF is not a programming language, and a PDF file is not a program.
Similarly, we don't have a word processor with Acrobat/PDF.

With that said, as you know, you can migrate textual content into an authoring application (such as MS Word).
Add your desired headers/footers in MS Word.
You can extract/export images to a number of common file formats for editing with image editors. MS Paint works for
many small, quick turn around edits. You can export tables to csv files for editing in a spreadsheet application.
With desired editing to images and tables completed you have files that can be incorporated into your MS Word file.
Then, using Adobe PDF, on the MS Word menu bar, convert the MS Word file to a PDF.

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